OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Studies Quarterly is 5. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Mass Emigration and the Erosion of Liberal Democracy	134
Borders in Cyberspace: Digital Sovereignty Through a Bordering Lens	78
Citizen Support for a European Defense Union: An International Conjoint Experiment on Security Cooperation in Europe	37
Ideology, Local-Level Policymaking, and International Governmental Organizations	32
Global Treaties and Domestic Politics: Do Bilateral Investment Treaties Constrain Taxation in Developing Countries?	25
“Yes-Man” Firms: Government Campaign and Policy Positioning of Businesses in China	25
Dealing with Clashes of International Law: A Microlevel Study of Climate and Trade	24
The Ripple Effects of the Illegitimacy of War	23
Why Territorial Disputes Escalate: The Causes of Conquest Attempts since 1945	23
Human Shields and the Gulf War	23
Nonresident Prime Ministers? Measuring India’s Foreign Policy Orientation via Leadership Travel	22
The Temporal Politics of Inevitability: Mass Death during the COVID-19 Pandemic	20
“Train the World”: Examining the Logics of US Foreign Military Training	20
Who on Earth Wants a World Government, What Kind, and Why? An International Survey Experiment	19
The Effect of Interpersonal Interaction on the Expression of Anti-Foreign Sentiment: Evidence from a Parallel Survey in the United States and China	18
The Character and Origins of Military Attitudes on the Use of Force	17
Accountable to Whom? Public Opinion of Aid Conditionality in Recipient Countries	17
Decision by Design: Leaders, Bureaucracies, and International Crisis Performance	17
Environmental Concern Leads to Trade Skepticism on the Political Left and Right	16
Introducing the Mandates of International Organizations’ Missions (MIOM) Dataset: Comprehensive Data on the Mandates of UN and Regional Organizations’ Missions, 1989–2020	16
When the Rich Get Richer: Class, Globalization, and the Sociotropic Determinants of Populism	15
The Servant of Many Masters: The Multiple Commitments of State- Agents	15
Win-Win Deescalation	15
“It’s Just How Things Are Done”: Social Ecologies of Sexual Violence in Humanitarian Aid	15
Public Support for Green, Inclusive, and Resilient Growth Conditionality in International Monetary Fund Bailouts	14

Capital Mobility and Taxation: State–Business Collusion in China	14
Audience Costs and the Credibility of Public versus Private Threats in International Crises	13
Correction to: The Design of Autocratic Trade Agreements: Economic Integration and Political Survival	13
The Mercurial Commitment: Revisiting the Unintended Consequences of Military Humanitarian Intervention and Anti-Atrocity Norms	13
Diplomatic Representation and Online/Offline Interactions: EU Coordination and Digital Sociability	12
Domination for the Rest? Creating and Contesting Secondary State-Led International Hierarchies	12
Political Agency, Victimhood, and Gender in Contexts of Armed Conflict: Moving beyond Dichotomies	12
Speaking Volumes: Introducing the UNGA Speech Corpus	11
A New Era: Power in Partnership Peacekeeping	11
Free Trade's Organized Progressive Opposition	11
Not So Dangerous? Nationalism and Foreign Policy Preference	11
The Construction of Terrorist Threat in Mali: Agency and Narratives of Intervention	11
Killing Protests with Kindness: Anti-China Protests and China's Public Diplomacy	11
Do Different Coercive Strategies Help or Hurt Deterrence?	11
IO Endorsements, Perceived Alignment, and Public Support for Unpopular Policies	10
Friends in the Profession: Rebel Leaders, International Social Networks, and External Support for Rebellion	10
Immigration, Justice Remittances, and US Courts	10
Cross-Network Weaponization in the Semiconductor Supply Chain	10
The (Dis-)Appearance of Race in the United Kingdom’s Institutionalization and Implementation of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda	10
Using Bourdieu's Habitus in International Relations	10
Insuring the Weak: The Institutional Power Equilibrium in International Organizations	9
Foreign Aid, Development, and US Strategic Interests in the Cold War	9
Hierarchy in Regime Complexes: Understanding Authority in Antarctic Governance	9
Theorizing Decision-Making in International Bureaucracies: UN Peacekeeping Operations and Responses to Norm Violations	9
Public and Private Information in International Crises: Diplomatic Correspondence and Conflict Anticipation	9
Unpacking Legitimacy Perceptions of Investment Dispute Settlement: Effects of Outcome and Procedure	9
Trading with Frenemies: How Economic Diplomacy Affects Exports	9
Entangled Narratives: Insights from Social and Computer Sciences on National Artificial Intelligence Infrastructures	9
Network Context and the Effectiveness of International Agreements	9
Triggers of State-Led Mass Killing	8
Economic Sanctions and Food Consumption: Evidence from Iranian Households	8
Participatory Rebel Governance and Durability of Peace	8
Correction to: Developing-Country Representation and Public Attitudes toward International Organizations: The Case of IMF Governance Reform	8
Nuclear Weapons and Low-Level Military Conflict	8
Pressed to Prolong: Conscription, the Costs of Military Labor, and Civil War Duration	8
Interpellation and the Politics of Belonging: A Psychoanalytical Framework	8
Carrots as Sticks: How Effective Are Foreign Aid Suspensions and Economic Sanctions?	7
Beyond Roll-Call Voting: Sponsorship Dynamics at the UN General Assembly	7
Manipulating Public Beliefs about Alliance Compliance: A Survey Experiment	7
Transnational Repression: International Cooperation in Silencing Dissent	7
Organizations, Resistance, and Democracy: How Civil Society Organizations Impact Democratization	7
How Do Consociations Craft Asylum Policy? Lebanon’s Response to Conflict-Induced Displacement as an Exploratory Case	7
Rebel Child Soldiering and Conflict-Related Sexual Violence	7
Global Finance, Political Business Cycles, and the Politics of Foreign Reserves	7
Labor Market Policy as Immigration Control: The Case of Temporary Protected Status	6
Identifying Pathways to Peace: How International Support Can Help Prevent Conflict Recurrence	6
Mnemonic Encounters: The Construction and Persistence of International “History Wars” and the Case of Japan–South Korea Relations	6
Correction to: No Safe Haven: Operation Condor and Transnational Repression in South America	6
Provocation, Public Opinion, and International Disputes: Evidence from China	6
Resilience and Domination: Resonances of Racial Slavery in Refugee Exclusion	6

Modeling Institutional Change and Subject-Production: The World Bank's Turn to Stakeholder Participation	6
Creating Status Loss: Delegitimation through Information Warfare	6
What Does Queer IR Want? A Queer Psychoanalytic Critique	6
Can “Soft” Advice from International Organizations Catalyze Natural Resource Sector Reform?	6
An Appraisal of Project Mars and theDivided ArmiesArgument	6
Harnessing Intuition and Disciplining Abstraction: Thought Experiments in International Relations	6
Local Economic Consequences of Foreign Direct Investment in Democracies and Autocracies	6
When in Debt, Appoint Women? A Re-Examination of Aid, Debt, and the Inclusion of Women in African Cabinets	6
Foreign Policy as Compensation: Why Brexit Became a Foreign and Security Policy Issue	6
Force Structure and Local Peacekeeping Effectiveness: Micro-Level Evidence on UN Troop Composition	6
Modeling Diffusion through Statistical Network Analysis: A Simulation Study and Empirical Application to Same-Sex Marriage	6
Memory-Political Deterrence: Shielding Collective Memory and Ontological Security through Dissuasion	6
The Gendered Peace Premium	6
A “Priesthood of Knowledge”: The International Thought of Henri de Saint-Simon	6
Do International Dispute Bodies Overreach? Reassessing World Trade Organization Dispute Ruling	5
Transnational Legal Spillover? A Re-Appraisal of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention	5
The Limits of Liberalization: WTO Entry and Chinese State-Owned Firms	5
Is There a Religious Dimension to Concern about Farmer–Herder Conflicts in Nigeria?	5
Anarchy as Architect: Competitive Pressure, Technology, and the Internal Structure of States	5
Crime and Punishment in International Politics: On the Agency and Moral Standing of Community	5
The Social Construction of Global Health Priorities: An Empirical Analysis of Contagion in Bilateral Health Aid	5
Countermapping the Carceral Security State: Beyond the Imperial Boomerang	5
Disaggregating Repression: Identifying Physical Integrity Rights Allegations in Human Rights Reports	5
Art World Fields and Global Hegemonies	5
Why Economic Development Does Not Diminish Religious Conflict	5
Correction to: The Imagination and International Relations	5
Developing-Country Representation and Public Attitudes toward International Organizations: The Case of IMF Governance Reform	5
Planes, Trains, and Armored Mobiles: Introducing a Dataset of the Global Distribution of Military Capabilities	5
Defending Society, Building the Nation: Rebel Governance as Competing Biopolitics	5
Why International Organizations Don’t Learn: Dissent Suppression as a Source of IO Dysfunction	5
Bipartisanship in the Shadow of China’s Rise: The Effect of External Threats on Internal Unity in the US Congress	5
The Defeminizing Reversal: Globalization, Industrial Upgrading, and Female Labor Force Participation	5
Membership Has Its Privileges: Targeted Killing Norms and the Firewall of International Society	5
Strategic Humanitarianism and US Refugee Admissions after the Cold War	5
Putting the Civilian Back in Civil–Military Relations: How Civilian Leaders Condition the Effects of Security Assistance	5